I was skimming
through the news and notice this headline from ABC news, "Most Back Cuts
Overall – But Not to the Military". By a nearly 2 to 1 margin people are
opposed to cutting the military budget in this country. Although, they did only
poll about a thousand people. The people polled apparently support cutting,
education, health benefits, and other social services but not the war machine. With
the sequester the department of defense will receive a roughly 8% reduction is
spend equality $43
billion from defense programs.
To put
that in prospective. The war in Iraq,
according to the DOD totaled at least $757.8 billion. That doesn’t count cost
of medical care for veterans, and the war in Afghanistan. Giving us over
$1 billion per year of the war.As of 2007 there was
an estimated $10 billion dollars lost through waste or mismanagement in the
warsThe United States
plans to buy a total of 2,443 F-35 strike fighters at a cost of about $130
million per plane. And it doesn't…